AlterPoint Achieves Key Milestones in Open Network Management Initiative.NetworkAuthority "Mako mako (mä`kō), heavy-bodied, fast-swimming shark, genus Isurus, highly prized as a game fish. Also known as the sharp-nosed mackerel shark, it is a member of the mackerel shark family, which also includes the great white shark and the " Release and ZipForge Network Management Exchange Help Customers Achieve Comprehensive Control Over Multi-Vendor Networks AUSTIN, Texas -- In a game-changing move for the network management industry, AlterPoint, Inc. (www.alterpoint.com) today announced two important milestones in its Open Network Management Initiative: the Mako release of Network Authority, AlterPoint's flagship open network management solution; and the launch of ZipForge, a network management exchange that provides networking professionals, tools developers and equipment vendors access to a growing collection of adapters, script tools, best practices and other management components based on the ZipTie open network inventory framework. The last five years have seen an explosion of new technologies and a proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of high-speed connectivity and logical overlay networks A logical network that runs on top of another network. For example, peer-to-peer networks are overlay networks on the Internet. They use their own addressing system for determining how files are distributed and accessed, which provides a layer on top of the Internet's IP addressing. . As the number of new device types and network services has continued to grow, vendors of network management software have struggled to provide comprehensive support. This has forced network teams to revert re·vert v. 1. To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief. 2. To undergo genetic reversion. to native element management systems (EMS's) for all but the most basic management operations - in effect, inflating network costs and exposing companies to significant security risks. "Vendors of network management software have long struggled to support the deep, domain-specific details of growing numbers of devices, resulting in a 'least-common-denominator' approach to network management," said Scott Harmon, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AlterPoint. "We are turning this model on its head, leveraging the resources of a vibrant open source community to remove the barriers to implementation of new network technologies, and to deliver on the vision of open network management." Highlights and accomplishments of AlterPoint's Open Network Management Initiative include: * Launch of ZipForge (http://forge.ziptie.org) - the industry's first-ever network management exchange where members of the ZipTie community and ZipTie Open Network Alliance (ZONA) can download, develop and share scripts, change templates, rules, policies, adaptors, plug-ins and best practices. ZONA members currently include network equipment providers Citrix, Force10, Juniper, Radware, Riverbed and Vyatta, among others. * Growing Open-Source Community - more than 1,200 users joined the ZipTie community in Q4 2007, bringing total ZipTie membership to 6,200. * Release of the ZipTie Development Environment (ZDE ZDE Zend Development Environment ) - enables the open source community to create, edit and extend adapters, scripts and plug-ins that can be used with ZipTie, NetworkAuthority and other management environments that adopt the ZipTie framework. * "Mako" Release of NetworkAuthority - features an open, extensible architecture that leverages ZipTie as the foundation of the NetworkAuthority CMDB CMDB Configuration Management Data Base CMDB Composite Modified Double Base (Propellant) CMDB Control and Monitor Display Builder CMDB Call Management Database , allowing Network Authority users to easily download and "drop in" device adapters Same as interface adapter. , scripts, change templates and other content developed by the ZipTie community. * Commercial Support of ZipTie and ZipForge Community Components - AlterPoint now offers professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for enterprises seeking support for ZipTie, as well as community-supplied management components. "We prefer an open management approach because it allows more people to develop adaptors and tools that support new networking technologies," said Charles Spurgeon Charles Haddon Spurgeon, commonly C.H. Spurgeon, (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) was a British Reformed Baptist preacher who remains highly influential amongst Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known in various circles as the "Prince of , senior network architect at the University of Texas at Austin “University of Texas” redirects here. For other system schools, see University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Austin (often referred to as The University of Texas, UT Austin, UT, or Texas . "This lessens our dependency on any one vendor's in-house development team and increases our ability to introduce new technologies while maintaining centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management of the entire network." "Open approaches give IT management platforms a better chance at keeping up with customer needs," said Michael Cote, analyst at RedMonk. "At the same time, they also keep those platforms honest and innovative by avoiding a single-vendor, closed approach to ongoing development. Any IT management effort benefits from taking the open approach to software development and community that's worked well in other areas of the IT industry." About AlterPoint, Inc. AlterPoint open network management solutions optimize network spend and better align IT with business imperatives. The world's most respected enterprises rely on AlterPoint to curb hardware over-provisioning, reduce specialized labor, lower the cost of compliance, and improve the availability of network services. AlterPoint's open, comprehensive network CMDB combines operational and business data to automate, analyze and optimize network change, compliance, security and equipment lifecycles. Multiple stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. benefit from AlterPoint's customizable analytics and dashboards for impact assessment, faster troubleshooting, compliance scorecards and trend analysis. Founded in 2001, AlterPoint is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit http://www.alterpoint.com. (c) 2001-2007 AlterPoint, Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. AlterPoint, NetworkAuthority, DeviceAuthority, and their respective logos are trademarks of AlterPoint, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other jurisdictions. All other company or product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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